I installed Office 2004 without MSN Messenger and have had NO problem with
iChat. Installed on both 17" flat panel iMac and 12" iBook. Both work OK.
Marsha L. Hillson Gerace
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Entourage 11.0.0 (040405) & MacOS 10.3.4; 768MB RAM
Thus spake Michael J. Kobb [EMAIL PROTECTED], circa 07/02/2004 12:23 AM:
> Howdy,
>
> Bug report/warning for people who haven't upgraded yet. I'm using MacOS X
> 10.3.4 on a 17" 1.5GHz G4 Powerbook.
>
> I installed Office 2004 last night. Everything went smoothly. I used the
> installation wizard, with a custom install disabling MSN Messenger and
> adding Equation Editor, the Additional Templates, the Remote Desktop
> Connection Client and the Windows Media Player.
>
> Afterwards, everything seemed fine, and all my apps including iChat were
> working fine.
>
> However, I did notice that the fonts in my Safari browser looked weird.
> So, I rebooted the computer.
>
> My Safari fonts went back to normal, and Office was still working fine.
> However, iChat wouldn't launch. It would bounce a couple of times in the
> dock, then exit. No crash logs in the console, no dialogs. The iChat menu
> bar menu works fine and can see the online status of my buddies, but if I
> try to start a chat or view the buddy list, I get the same launch-then-quit
> behavior.
>
> I created a new user and did a fast user switch to that user. It can't
> launch iChat either. I turned off auto-login, rebooted, and logged in only
> as my new test user. Same thing.
>
> Here's the kicker: just as I was about to send this message asking for
> help, I tried a last-ditch solution. I launched the Office Installer again,
> selected ONLY the MSN Messenger, and installed it.
>
> iChat works just fine now. Not installing MSN Messenger BROKE MY ICHAT!
> <:-O.
>
> I'm guessing that the installer removed some resource that iChat needed
> because MSN Messenger was going to install a replacement, but not installing
> Messenger broke iChat.
>
> Thanks,
> --Mike
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